The science of spiciness - Rose Eveleth
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- čas přidán 9. 03. 2014
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When you take a bite of a hot pepper, your body reacts as if your mouth is on fire -- because that's essentially what you've told your brain! Rose Eveleth details the science and history behind spicy foods, giving insights into why some people continue to pay the painful price for a little spice.
Lesson by Rose Eveleth, animation by Flaming Medusa Studios Inc.
The pain doesn't get any better, you just get tougher.
you do slowly make your tastebuds more and more numb though
@@kooltyme numb doesn't mean it destroys them
@@syphon5899 yes, but im saying your taste buds slowly and slowly become permanently numb
I remember my first encounter with a chilly pepper. It was like my saliva became acid. Brutal.
Kitir, climbing that pain tolerance ladder
chili: *becomes spicy as a defence
humans: *eat chili because they are spicy
Mission: Failed
Lol
we'll get'em next time
Ha!
Can confirm, I am chili
chili peppers succeeded by being attractive to humans though. If you look at any domesticated organisms on earth they outnumber their wild counterparts by far.
Having worked in a tattoo shop, I can say it's fascinating the varying levels of pain tolerance people have. It never seems to be correlated to gender, race, toughness, etc., but rather attitude. I feel like this video sorta confirmed that theory but which spicy food instead.
That's very interesting, what do you mean by attitude ?
Can't believe this didn't bring up the fact that, once you reach enough pain level with spicy foods, your body releases endorphins to counteract the pain. That is the "head rush" people talk about when they eat foods that are spicy out of their comfort zone. Spicy foods are like a drug. You keep wanting spicier food to get that head rush of endorphins. And man does it feel good. Very pleasurable, actually.
masochist
Lol, you understand me. Haha I'm hopelessly addicted, I need help!
So, what would happen if you ate a chili pepper and a mint at the same time?
Frostburn.
+Pixelater4 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOL
If they had the same strength, they might cancel each other out.
The 7th dimension would implode. Please don't do it. I myself as a resident of the seventh dimension would pay you googl ravens to not do it, kthxby
The architecture of all realites would be completely destroyed.
when You grow up with eating spicy food it doesn't taste as spicy to you as It does to other people who aren't used to It.
Bella_ P exactly, thank you
Yes relatable
Bella_ P yeah basically
makes sense
True that
The true pain of spicy food happens not where it enters the body, but where it exits 💀
Truer words haven’t been said.
Didn't Johnny Cash write a song about that?
They just seem to like the pain more....
Masochists: You rang?~?
Every time I eat spicy food, and don’t like the dice, I eat more and more
@@Mikaarj1233 Don't like the dice?
@@toad-on-a-toadstool don’t like the spice haha
Bell pepper is 0 unit and there are peoples out there who still think it's spicy.
Here in India we call those people pussies :D
I find it spicy :P
Iqlima Bachariputri White ppl
Pls -,- I grow Carolina reapers.
Iqlima Bachariputri i dont like it cuz it tastes to sweet
"The pain doesn't get any better .... you just get tougher." - most inspiring quote I've heard in a long time. Oh and spicy foods are dope.
I love how this is from 9 years ago yet no one replied and this didnt get more than 1k likes
"When it comes to spicy food, youre gonna get burned"
Laughs in Fire Resistance potion
Lol
Minecraft
Growing up in Indonesia, I used to eat spicy food since I was a child as we have varies spices such as chili, cayenne, pepper, nutmeg, clove, galangal, shallot, etc. Unfortunately, thats also the main reason why Netherland occupied us long time ago😕.
Anyway, maybe thats why my spiciness tolerance level is above the average, especially when ordering food with frens from other country, they usually think its too hot n spicy while I am enjoying the food n being okay with it :)
We had it the other way around, we were occupied by the ottomans who brought spices with them. We use so many and you can't sit on the table without something spicy. Western food seems so dull in comparison.
Russia has colonized places where people eat fish and seals, but I still don't like fish and I don't even try to eat seals.
Sameee, my mom used to cook super spicy fried fish and biryani when I was growing up. I still add a mix of cayenne, red chilli powder/paprika and Tabasco to my curry 😂😂😂
I am Indonesian. And until 13, I tought tabasco was super spicy. It was because of cartoons, every cartoon used tabasco as a symbol of hellish spiciness. But it actually not spicy compared to out sambal at all. Lol.
Me: Grows up in Indonesia
Also me: Can’t even eat a tiny drop of chili sauce or a little bit of chili powder without drinking multiple glasses of water
"Some studies have even shown that those who like to eat hot stuff are more likely to enjoy other adrenaline-rich activities, LIKE GAMBLING" *shows a guy parachuting*
Xantiago P its a potato
Or as Raymond labuan99 said- It's a Potato!!
Lifes a gamble
Xantiago P well , parachuting or skydiving is infact adrenaline-rich sport. Idk man ! I think ya had to learn a lot
its paragliding
3:32 that face made me lol so hard
+Steve Johnson lol, I know right
omg ikr
hhhhhh yeah its very funny lol
Josh Pumphrey he's beautiful
when you win the lottery 3:32
0:56 Are we just going to ignore the cuteness of those receptors in woollens?
Yes
2:32 Spices "used for decoration". That animation actually made me LoL.
I mean, people used to rent watermelons to show 'em off in parties so this doesnt' come off as a surprise LOL
0:35 man, those are the cutest polymodal nociceptors I've ever seen.
The animations in this video was so funny😂😂😂
We have some cool chili ones as well :)
Seb Bejarano and educational
ikr
The animations in this video WERE so funny
what a bad sense of humour
Me after eating a whole pizza that was sprayed with a bottle of tobasco sauce: IM A DRAGON
Still me but 2 hour later: NOPE IM A ROCKET
HA
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hahee funni
Lol
Tabasco sauce is literally the perfect condiment.
2:25 literally me at my funeral
lol
Lolololol
Sooooooo.... u like mustard?
That is my end goal, when I die I want to be buried with a bottle of mustard
I want to be buried with a sword in my hand... so generations further people will think I was a warrior
the heat from spice stimulates production of endorphins, your body's natural painkiller, which also has the pleasant side effect of making you happier. c'mon guys it's not that hard to figure.
And peppers are rich in vitamin C. More than citrus fruits.
+Mikeyguy94 You can eat that "Bell Pepper" for vitamin C supplement without getting tortured by hotness
iwanabana Adrenaline, not Endorphins.
Giofunny he was referring to endorphins.
Giofunny do you know what endorphins are? Adrenaline doesn't make you happier
My toilet has 189 black tiles and 54 gray ones, i counted em all thanks to indian food.
XD this belongs in the top comments
lol
Its actually not thaaat spicy... well according to what you ate it will differ but generally hmmm...
if what you are saying is true, what did you eat?
XD nice one tho
Try Thai food as well >:)
i don't get it. you eat indian food in your toilet bowl?
3:32 animation made my day. 😂
“the pain doesn’t get any better. you just get tougher.” damn. felt that.
You forgot one important component as to why people eat spicy foods. It tastes good. A chili pepper is not just heat and pain, they can have some amazing flavors. The Ghost Pepper for instance, while incredibly hot, tastes fantastic.
G33KSPALACEdotCOM I completely agree with this, and that pain is worth the flavor ghost peppers have.
yes and no. Ghost Pepper has no need to exist except to convince someone they are cool or tough for eating something so needlessly hot. but your point on taste is spot on. Mexican salsas can vary in intensity, but the only truly good ones TASTE great. even mild ones can be delicious because of the ingredients and how they play off each other. I usually use at least two different types of chile peppers when making something that calls for it, like in my guacamole.
The idea that people who like spicy foods, just 'like the pain more' and dont experience less discomfort seems very wrong to me. My diet went from blander than average to spicier than average after marrying my wife who grew up in Indonesia where they like their food REALLY hot. In the space of a couple years my tolerance for spicy food has gone way up. Food that used to be uncomfortably hot at a mainstream American restaurant is barely noticeable for me now, to the point where a couple times I complained to the staff thinking I had gotten the mild dish instead of spicy that I ordered.
But you still have to question why people would go for it in the beginning before they gain tolerance.
@@fairytaleoverworlds7795 Because of the sensations they release (and I'm not talking about pain).
Yes that’s totally true! I had the same experienced, just the other way around. I’m from south east Asia and we love spicy food. After dating my wife who’s Taiwanese for a few years, I started eating spicy food as she can’t take spicy food. After some time, my favourite spicy dishes were starting to get spicer to me.
Congratulations, you got tougher
I can vouch for that! Living in Indonesia, it's hard to find completely mild food. I used to be unable to tolerate even the lightest of spices, but I forced myself to toughen up. Now I'm addicted to sambal 😂
"you have these all over your body"
so your saying if I take a chilli bath I will feel like I'm on fire?
Don't. I once cut a habanero without wearing gloves and it felt like my whole arm was on fire for HOURS. It was not a pleasant experience.
And is using minty candies give you a relaxing cold bath?
Don’t do bruh 😂
Spray your body with pepper spray and find out.
Finally, a fitting way to torture people
The line "you just got tougher" motivated me to eat more spicy foods!!!
"Like the pain more..." 3:32 Well, apparently my constant craving for buffalo sauce and dark souls 3 indicate that I am a hard core masochist.
Same
Zacchary Picardal ôh I did no that is the only thing that would
the fact
I'm a masochist too... 😬😂🌶️
Same
I like spicy too much lol
yes, yes u are.
Eating a fresh habanero when I had the flu actually helped my recovery (stopped bring achey) and gave me back my energy
:0
I also eat spicy food while sick, makes my sinnuses clear and i feel better
I remember when I was in middle school there were teachers saying that back in the ancient days one of the treatments people used for then common cold flu or any sinus related problems they would eat spicy foods because they claimed it would flush out their nose and help them breathe and smell again. And it really works. Wasabi does the job for sure.
When I had ebola back in 2014 I was almost about to die but then I ate a jalapeno and I was cured.
I got covid and ate a cayenne pepper and now my whole family is immune forever.
Thank you! ive known for awhile that mint is not a taste and the thought that spicy works the same way is what brought me here. Makes so much sense
Animation of this video just gets me in a good mood. I have watched this video a lot of times on random occasions.
She put spicy foods in a negative light, as if she had some sort of bias. It was a little odd... I enjoy spicy foods because there are certain tastes that you just can't replicate without the spice. I'm not sure what the science behind that is, but anyone who enjoys hot things can vouch, I'm sure.
***** You misunderstood. I get the separation between taste and thermoception, what I am saying is that there are certain tastes that do not exist without the contributing spice. The taste of pepperoncinis, for example, cannot be experience without the spice, as far as I know. There are no flavors that mimic spicy peppers without also mimicking the thermoceptive stimulation. So, despite what this video says, there is some sort of interaction between taste and thermoception, however thermoception itself is not a taste.
I personally do not give a flip who likes and doesn't like spicy food. The statement I made about the bias was unrelated to the statement made about tastes and spice. Especially towards the end, she seemed as if she was (although very obscurely, and I'm sure unintentionally) trying to make spicy foods seem less attractive to this video's viewers.
Ikr
Yeah the pepperoni wouldn't be the same without spiciness
She's not viewing them in a negative light, she's recognizing that spiciness itself is actually pain, and thus should be scientifically viewed as quite odd, even though it's something lots of people enjoy.
fourPOdimethylT I vouch for you
"Thos who eat spicy stuff like more adrenaline enducing activities."
I love spicy food but I hate even the baby roller coasters
Lol same
Me lol
Dank... i hate rollercoaster too! I like bungee jumping, illegal street racing, hunting... but rollercoaster, i remember going to Bush gardens... never more.
@@user-hn1bq3sy9b >illegal racing
r/iamverybadass
@@chad5115 yup the best thing in the world
I remember eating sweet peppers as snacks and someone asked for one, the person ate it and spat it out saying it was spicy.
I was upset because a perfectly fine pepper was wasted -_-
My husband and I are the complete opposite when it comes to spicy food. I'm Asian and is a "spice-baby" because I can't tolerate spicy food. Seriously, even a mild buffalo sauce at Buffalo Wild Wings is a bit hot to me! My husband is white and loves spicy food. He will order food with maximum spicy but he doesn't just want hot like the Bdubs wing challenge. He prefers flavorful hot like Indian-level spicy for a vindaloo curry.
I recently tried max heat vindaloo curry and it was AMAZING!!!
I love how it shows sky diving as she says "gambling". Because of course, gambling is practically sky diving. lol
It's a big gamble. You risk your life for the thrill.
ikr😂😂😂
Whenever something isn't spicy, it just don't taste good anymore.
Rustic Human he probably eats only tabasco chocolate.
Moneygetjealous period
Right???
Amen
Capt Crunch?
“The pain doesn’t get any better, you only get stronger” - story of my life
Its damn cool that TED answers all those questions that randomly pops up every time in our mind 😌
I'm eating spicy food while watching this
sick
Fuck, that's so tough
Same here 😂👌
me too haha
Homeless Cat Lover Same, lol
I would definitely rate the pain less severe after 30 years of eating very spicy foods and I know others who claim the same effect, so I'm a little skeptical about the last claim. What is certain? It's time for a nice hot curry.
i agree i've been eating spicy for years and it definitely hurts less after awhile
Ted ed has been my favourite teacher of all time. Just pure un-biased information
I've been eating spicy chilli peppers for over 3 years now and I can say that I can just chew chilli pepper and like only feel a substantial amount of spiciness in it compared to what it used to before. Overall, if you overcome that spicyness, you'll actually taste the umami/sweet kinda like flavor that comes alongside it.
And when you take a bite of bacon your body reacts as if your mouth is having sex.
Bacon tastes like 20+ year old vagina! Who knew.
***** What about coke covered bacon?
***** But it must be done. FOR SCIENCE.
***** Science knows no bounds.
3:32 when i have to pee and then i finally get to the bathroom
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There's this province in my country where everyone EVERYONE eats spicy. All their foods are spicy. Even their ice cream. When I asked one of the locals why the heck they exist like this, she said it's because spicy food can still feel hot and fresh even when cold. It also feels bland (like, less salty or less sweet) when things aren't spiced. This perception on taste is more likely genetic.
The province is called Bicol, btw. In the Philippines.
The animation is just so adorable!
I very much like all of Rose Eveleth's lessons. They're easy put, show the full package, and they're short :). Keep it up, you are awesome.
because it makes some food tastier , no ?
Spicy is a substance not a taste.
We up in the restaurant sprayi' Siracha sauce all up in the food
I guess so, I mean the chilli pepper makes it taste better, not the "spice".
Pham H. Anh kind of
It does, but when it comes to me, I can't taste anything anymore since my tongue got too burnt...
Lol. Having grown up as a Bangladeshi that has hands down the hottest cuisine in the planet and growing up as a person who loves the taste of chillies and hot food, I never knew that this love is fake! I thought I loved my cuisine because it tastes absolutely delicious. I never knew that I just wanted to cause myself pain. Now I know that everything was a lie. I now know that I have destroyed my delicate taste bud that would otherwise enjoy great delicacies like kfc, mac & cheese and white chicken with salt along with other great ‘white’ delicacies! I bet this is the reason why I find everything bland after coming to the US and this is the reason I can taste and differentiate the artificial chemical smell, high sugar and syrup like smell, food coloring and smell of raw meat and frozen fish from those great frozen and organic US delicacies. It’s because my taste buds have been completely destroyed! This video has opened my eyes. Now I know that I am a masochist!
Hello fellow Bangladeshi. I love my naga morich however you’re citing really bad examples of white cuisine. There’s no tastebuds destroyed, white people have their standard savoury dishes complemented with cheese and there are different seasonings that taste really good, like Sea Food with Old Bay, a well tender and juicy steak with sauce, a well made marinara sauce etc. Spiciness isn’t representative of flavour even if it can give it an extra dimension in many dishes but dishes have the potential to be flavourful without being spicy. Think about miso soup as well, and sushi. The umami from soy sauce (Japanese food doesn’t seem spicy from my experience, yet remains delicious). There’s a world of flavours out there.
One of the best explanations 👍
I'm kind of a masochist when it comes to spicy food. I use dried Scorpion pepper on almost everything I eat. I love the burning sensation in my mouth and in my stomach as well.
i eat a lot of spicy food, tons of sambal, i love madame jeanette peppers.
but.. i dont even find normal pepper, or just stuff that other people burn their mouths on spicy at all.
it's like you become tolerant.
if i havent eaten spicy food in quite a while, the stuff i found mild before, is suddenly like lighting a fire.
Cute video! Humorous AND informative. Good job with the complex long terms, and just the right amount of vocal emphasis. A great length, and perfectly spicy.
I like ted very much . Every evening, I always listen ted.
That can't be right. I eat lots of spicy food. if it's mild enough I can't even taste the spice.
you must be awfully good at dark souls 3
Ruthwik Rao never played it. nor any other dark souls game. I watch my brother play them though. they don't seem very interesting to me.
Ben Thomason it's a very niche game, known for being unforgiving in difficulty so a majority of the audience is already alienated there. But the game is getting so popular, there's a whole new genre being dedicated to it called "souls-like". I personally haven't played them cuz I dont have any remotely powerful systems to run it so I'm safe lel
Then you should probably visit korea. they have lots hot food.
I love hot peppers and i beat nameless king first try on new game +.Also artorias 1st try on new game + on dark souls one and OnS 2nd try on my first playthrough.Bow to me,mortal...
I love this animation xD
It's so literal
"Humans started adding spices to food to kill off bacteria"
*Shows pepper with a spear killing bacteria*
"The taste for eating spicy food may be genetic"
*Shows DNA With peppers*
lmfao
Also the war for the hottest chili pepper with the tanks, LOL
This was hilarious and this taught me so much!
Thanks, I learned something!
3:30 made me laugh out loud like "Like the pain more" said with that funny animated face with tears and sweat. xD
lmao
actually made me die
Being a mexican, I can only tell that food without chile (chili) is nothing! Or at least, it's not as delicious as we like it. Most chilis we consume are not that hot, just enhance the food's taste, so I guess that's why chili is so basic for us, we like flavourful food.
Being Cuban, I can tell you spice does NOT equal flavor. For us, it takes away the from the actual flavor of the food, since our food is super focused on what it's supposed to be. I guess it's cause of the difference in what grows on the island vs the mainland.
It's hard living in Texas though when all your friends are Mexican and you can't handle spice 😫
+Nessa X Lol, im Mexican too, but you should be able to handle spice through time, start by eating low amount of spice scovilles, and ones you see improvement start eating hotter spices (if you like them of course) Chili all day every day! Haha ;)
Indians can handle tapatio, flamin hot cheetos and they have red spice on the street food. Also, jalapeno potato chips called "aloo masala", and can handle level 5 American Indian food at restaurants. Also, spicy buffalo wild wings. But they sneeze to Carolina reapers
Spice isn't flavor, flavor is. Because to me. Spice is unneeded and I prefer some foods original rather then add flavor. Because Original is the best flavor. Thats why I like the food. Because I like the flavor and choose something a different flavor then original makes that food not that food.
Oh and other people don't like "flavored food"???
This video is so good 😍 I love spicy food, and yeah I think that's in my genes 🤭 but this video explained so many curiosities I had ❤ thank you! 🙏
love that , I knew about Scoville notation but not what it actually meant
Some of these animations cracked me up
gotta love her voice
Now this is some good quality researched stuff
Wow..Just wow
The animations are so good
What about my ass?? 😩😩😫😖
The bathroom trips are always the worse 😭😭😭
#thestruggleisreal
+JoeMG me too.
+PicosABeast Chili today, hot tomorrow.
+PicosABeast As i heard someone saying: "good chilli burns 2 times;)"
+ogi22 Loool soo truee
Very interesting, the spiciness of the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion is less than the Carolina Reaper, and i hear the natives in Tobago use it as a worm infestation killer by eating it
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This animation is so good
1:40 Wow, i didn't know the shock type thing happened with some food like mustard is also comes as spicy category 🙂
Thanks for this extra information. ❤️
I would have to disagree with the last part of the video, growing up in Mexico it is a common understanding that you do build up an immunity to capsaicin, which I have noticed is not limited to the mouth. My wife who was born in California has complained of her mouth and fingers burning while she was cutting jalapeños and I have taken the exact chili she complained about burning her hands and rubbed it in my eye and felt no discomfort at all. I have in recent years stopped feeling much of anything burn that is below a habanero. Most of my friends who I grew up around have mentioned similar things. Also I have noticed that where the chili is grown and changing what type of chili capsaicin I eat often will give more or less of a heat reaction depending on my experience with that chili not the actual scoville rating.
매운 음식이 왜 매운 지에 대해서 잘 보았습니다. 매운 음식을 먹으면 혀가 불타는 느낌이 드는 이유가 뇌가 우리 몸이 진짜로 불타고 있다고 느껴서 그런 것이라는 사실이 매우 흥미로웠습니다. 이런 영상을 보면서 항상 무언가를 배우고 있는 느낌이어서 좋습니다.
What you said about spice and fight or flight totally makes sense why my Ayurvedic doctor keeps recommending to me I take it easy on the spice!
Interesting thank you for sharing. God bless
I love spicyness as a taste.
3:32 ..........
lol
I'm the same way
+gamerstrong 0121 I'm the same. Particularly the bogies.
I scrolled just to find that comment lmao.
Qasim Mir I just had a California reaper o god NEED MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These animations are great
sort detail on point video.. like it
Pov: You just got done eating spicy food
"you're going to get burned"
*Inspirational music starts playing*
This is excellent.
Thank you 😍😍😍
Masochism is the definition of this. "Painful, but i like"
Chili: *is spicy as a defense mechanism
Humans: ha jokes on you I'm into that sh!t
I love the animation
I’m seven years too late but this video was a pleasure to watch.
This is why I LOVE spicy foods of all kinds, and I also love adrenaline-situations. My kryptonite is not pressure situations, but rather boring situations.
I don care
This was informative and also made me laugh so hard!
I like that story. Funny and engaging.
I LOVE your channel 💕
I put jalapeños with my fried eggs :p
jalapeños are not spicy m8
Jesus Izquierdo Yes, they are, m8! :)
I put pure capsaicin extract on my fried eggs
GamelutioN where are you from? Here in Mexico we add jalapeños to popcorn 😂
Chuck Norris uses capsaicin for eyedrops
I LIKE THE....PAAAAAAAAAIN!!! LOL
thanks ted, very cool
I must say...the animations are so entertaining to watch😁
“WHY IS IT SPICY”
thank you for answering my question
00:10 "How do you soothe the burn?" Still has not been answered 8-(
As somebody who eats way too much spicy stuff all the time and I´m probably at serious risk of gastritis in the future, I can tell you that milk helps me. Water and juice don't do much, but milk is awesome.
I read somewhere that the capsaicin in chili is soluble in fat but not water so drinking milk ( unskimmed ) works while water doesn't help much.
lemons and/or salt
Jonathan Butler
Well you aren't desolving the capsaicin, you are basically just washing it away. Water does help. It's literally how spice is measured.
Jonathan Butler Dilution is a better word.
This answered my question if it gets better
매움에 과학에 대하여 배우는 시간이 되었습니다. 매움이 무엇이고 매움이라는것이 왜 일어나는지, 매움은 2가지 종류가 있다는것을 배우게된 의미있는 시간이 되었습니다.